Docker Job Trends in South Wales

Docker
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 22 43
Rank change year-on-year -42 +21 -10
Permanent jobs citing Docker 16 26 48
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 1.38% 7.39% 3.70%
As % of the System Software category 26.67% 60.47% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 13 26 45
10th Percentile £42,500 £31,250 £25,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £38,987 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,171 £53,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% +13.16% -28.84%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £74,053 £71,311 £74,000
Wales median annual salary £53,000 £53,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.40% +13.16% -21.81%

All System Software Skills
South Wales

Docker falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 60 43 144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 5.16% 12.22% 11.09%
Number of salaries quoted 48 43 114
10th Percentile £29,375 £31,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,170 £28,290
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,500 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +16.87% -18.79%
75th Percentile £68,750 £63,688 £54,375
90th Percentile £74,346 £69,800 £65,000
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £50,699 £40,500
% change year-on-year -11.24% +25.18% -10.00%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Docker relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Docker job vacancy trend in South Wales

Docker
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in South Wales over the 6 months to 25 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Docker in South Wales

Docker
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 25 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Newport -17 7 £53,000 -9.79%
Cardiff -35 5 £71,940 +39.97% 6
Caerphilly - 3 £67,500 -
Bridgend -14 1 £45,000 -10.00%
Docker
Wales

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) SaaS
3 5 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) GitHub
3 5 (31.25%) PaaS
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
4 3 (18.75%) GitHub Copilot
4 3 (18.75%) IaaS
5 2 (12.50%) dbt
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (6.25%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.25%) Pulumi
6 1 (6.25%) Sentry
6 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (6.25%) MySQL
3 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (62.50%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) JMeter
3 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
3 1 (6.25%) Gradle
3 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) Locust
3 1 (6.25%) Maven
3 1 (6.25%) MSTest
3 1 (6.25%) Selenium
3 1 (6.25%) SpecFlow
3 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (31.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 2 (12.50%) Finance
5 1 (6.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Senior
2 6 (37.50%) Developer
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Software Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Software Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Applications Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Lead
6 1 (6.25%) Automation Tester
6 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Automation Tester
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Tester
6 1 (6.25%) SEO Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) React
2 5 (31.25%) .NET
3 4 (25.00%) Node.js
4 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
4 3 (18.75%) CSS
4 3 (18.75%) HTML
4 3 (18.75%) RESTful
4 3 (18.75%) Vue
5 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET
5 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (12.50%) REST
6 1 (6.25%) CSS3
6 1 (6.25%) Gherkin
6 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
6 1 (6.25%) HTML5
6 1 (6.25%) Spring
6 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
6 1 (6.25%) Spring MVC
6 1 (6.25%) Spring Security
6 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
2 3 (18.75%) Replication
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
1 4 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Containerisation
2 12 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (68.75%) DevOps
4 10 (62.50%) Agile
5 9 (56.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (56.25%) Test Automation
6 6 (37.50%) Mentoring
7 5 (31.25%) Continuous Delivery
7 5 (31.25%) Observability
7 5 (31.25%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
8 4 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (25.00%) FinOps
8 4 (25.00%) Incident Response
8 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (25.00%) Open Source
8 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (25.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Python
2 7 (43.75%) JavaScript
3 6 (37.50%) Java
4 5 (31.25%) SQL
5 4 (25.00%) Bash
5 4 (25.00%) C#
5 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) ISTQB
2 1 (6.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.25%) QA
1 1 (6.25%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Terraform
2 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (6.25%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Google